No. 5 October 16th — Soult Routs Kalkreuth at Greussen; Erfurt and 16,000 Men Capitulate to Murat
To the Empress, at Mayence.
Weimar, October 16, 1806, 5 P.M.
M. Talleyrand will have shown you the bulletin, my dear; you will see my successes therein. All has happened as I calculated, and never was an army more thoroughly beaten and more entirely destroyed. I need only add that I am very well, and that fatigue, bivouacs, and night-watches have made me fat.
Adieu, dear. Kindest regards to Hortense and to the great M. Napoleon.—Yours ever,
Napoleon.
October 17th.—Bernadotte defeats Prussian reserve at Halle.
October 18th.—Davoust takes Leipsic, and an enormous stock of English merchandise.
October 19th.—Napoleon at Halle.
October 20th.—Lannes takes Dessau, and Davoust Wittenberg.
October 21st.—Napoleon at Dessau.